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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
*My Warforged, when presented with a choice, will not say "Reaching a consensus..."
*I may not name my characters words in Draconic that may be easily mispronounced
**If I do, and the party refers to my eidolon as "Cakes" instead of "Caex" I should try to stop them before he develops confidence issues.
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
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Rockphed
*** It totally rules the feel when the department chair walks in on my horrible caricature of him, and then does it better than me.
Perhaps you meant "ruins", but I like it better this way anyway.
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* I may not base my campaign on Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
** The same goes for The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
*** Ditto for any of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books
**** This goes doubly so for any Discworld stories
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*Can't dig a tunnel through a solid rock door with Mountain Hammer and a longsword
**or any other weapon for that matter.
***especially if the room next door contains lava
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
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LordDeathkeeper
*I may not name my characters words in Draconic that may be easily mispronounced
**If I do, and the party refers to my eidolon as "Cakes" instead of "Caex" I should try to stop them before he develops confidence issues.
***I may not name my character words in Draconic that when put together become a sexual innuendo.
****If I do, my character will just have to deal with the FURTHER confidence issues that might arise when his name is mispronounced.
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RoyVG
*Can't dig a tunnel through a solid rock door with Mountain Hammer and a longsword
**or any other weapon for that matter.
***especially if the room next door contains lava
****If i want to remove walls, i will ask the drow paladin to stick her head through the wall and check first, then remove the wall.
*I will not police my party as a paladin
**I will not enforce said policing by planting their heads in the solid rock floor
***I will not completely destroy the BBEG by attacking through solid rock
****I am no longer allowed to take underdark Knight and Mystic Fire Knight
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RoyVG
*Can't dig a tunnel through a solid rock door with Mountain Hammer and a longsword
**or any other weapon for that matter.
***especially if the room next door contains lava
**** Specially while singing "Dig dig a hole".
* The less references to other games, the better.
** My summoners can't say "I summon a <creature> in attack mode" or "Shocking Lizard, I choose you."
*** Can't say "erecting a dispenser" or similar when building anything with my Artificer or other builder classes.
**** Kamehameha, hadoken, or any similiar with any character that can shoot fireballs, lightining bolts, Eldritch Blasts, or similar, is a free sign for everyone to kill my character. Summarily.
***** Any LotR reference is fair play, though.
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Roderick_BR
**** Specially while singing "Dig dig a hole".
*****Dig a tunnel is right out.
******So is Hi Ho.
*******No more Disney songs.
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Metahuman1
*****Dig a tunnel is right out.
******So is Hi Ho.
*******No more Disney songs.
********Chanting "Diglett dig, Diglett dig" will cost me teeth.
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vasharanpaladin
********Chanting "Diglett dig, Diglett dig" will cost me teeth.
*********However it will cause permanent sanity damage to all in hearing range, regardless of if the system has sanity rules or not.
*May not run a planescape campaign in The Mad City
**Or a Don't Rest Your Head campaign in Sigil
***Mixing systems and settings is generally frowned upon
****Doing so just to mess with players will have the nearest and largest source books put into aerial trajectories towards my head.
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*unlike in dark souls where it could be a joyous life saving moment, in any cooperative tabletop game I should not shout at the top of my lungs "OH YEA! GET CRIT SON!"
** this is doubly so when I'm DMing
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*********Diggy diggy hole
**********I dig my hole
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toapat
****If i want to remove walls, i will ask the drow paladin to stick her head through the wall and check first, then remove the wall.
What?
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Flame of Anor
What?
Underdark Knight grants Earthglide. Thus, a paladin can crudely scout without trace at lvl 12+
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*at times it is acceptable to insert caracatures of real people into a D&D campaign
*During our down time it is acceptable for me to run a D&D campaign with the other cadets
**If any characters are based on the folowing bad things (read as infinite numbers of push ups) will happen to me
-My Drill Sergeant
-The Colonel
-The Quartermaster Sergeant
-The Cadet Command
-Any Current Pollitical Figure
*I may not reference the fact that Master Sergeant is... OH GOD HE'S RIGHT BEHINNNNNNNNNnnnnnnnnnnnnn........................ ...........
<connection lost>
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Re: Things I May No Longer Do While Playing III: I May Not Iron Heart Surge Rule Zero
*May not dominate the quest giver to pay us before we do the quest.
**May not dominate the monster to give us it's xp
***Talking the monster out of fighting us will not work, and if it did it doesn't count as defeating it in combat.
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PaperMustache
...***Talking the monster out of fighting us will not work, and if it did it doesn't count as defeating it in combat.
Actually, in most games I have been in, that would have counted -- win through roleplay is just as good of a win as combat, though usually results in less loot. Sometimes.
*Opening spell of polymorph other is frowned upon.
**Doubly so when the target cannot make saving throw to maintain current identity.
***Especially when it is a Troll to butterfly morph.
****Cannot then allow anyone to take up entomology as a new hobby.
*Chain lightning in an enclosed space is a Bad Idea.
**Doubly so when more than half the party wears metal armor.
***Cannot complain when both full plate wearing paladin and cleric won't heal you later in the round.
*When fighting vampires, tag teaming bless water and create water elemental using the same water source will result in DM face-palms and higher than normal grapple checks.
**When succeeding in those checks, it is poor form to gloat.
***Especially to the boss who sired them.
Failure to comply with these guidelines gets you what you apparently asked for...
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*Batman is an acceptable place to start for a character concept. Bat-Mite, on the other hand, is not.
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Actually, in most games I have been in, that would have counted -- win through roleplay is just as good of a win as combat, though usually results in less loot. Sometimes.
Is there any precedent for this? Because that's what I thought too but the DM didn't think it made sense so I dropped it. We play pathfinder.
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PaperMustache
Is there any precedent for this? Because that's what I thought too but the DM didn't think it made sense so I dropped it. We play pathfinder.
Pretty sure 3.5 DMG covers that, not sure if Pathfinder does tho...
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PaperMustache
Is there any precedent for this? Because that's what I thought too but the DM didn't think it made sense so I dropped it. We play pathfinder.
This type of confrontation was a standard in all our games [AD&D, 3.0, and 3.5; Star Wars (both old d10 and new d20); and Vampire the Masquerade]. I have not played Pathfinder, but I would think that victory is victory no matter how you slice it. And not getting bashed in is a victory. While we might not get the loot we might have had if we had just gone in magic missiles blazing, we usually ended up with an information resource if not a outright ally. Frankly, this was typically worth a lot more than gold or magic items, but that was how we did our games. (Mileage may very.)
It probably depends on how your GM wants to run the game, but I would find it rather odd if talking my way out of a fight didn't count as a victory. (Of course, we always had skills (or equivalent) that we could base a character personality that was likely to be able to try that.) *shrug* If it bugs you it might be a good idea to talk it over with your GM a bit more to find out what [her] rational is, but it is [his] game and in the end, you will know better next time in either case.
I wish you luck in figuring it out!
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*High fives are in order when someone scores a critical hit.
**A contingent major image that makes fireworks go off accompanied by theme music, a sound effect, and someone yelling "critical hit!" is a bit too much.
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Ksheep
Pretty sure 3.5 DMG covers that, not sure if Pathfinder does tho...
I'm 95% sure this is true. I even think I remember there being an example involving a minotaur.
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Ksheep
Pretty sure 3.5 DMG covers that, not sure if Pathfinder does tho...
I've read 3.5 Modules and Pathfinder Adventure Paths, and both award full exp for resolving conflicts peacefully.
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* When I say I'm going to nerf the dungeon, I can't just replace all the 50' pitfall traps with 10' pitfall traps that have gelatinous cubes at the bottom.
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Ksheep
* When I say I'm going to nerf the dungeon, I can't just replace all the 50' pitfall traps with 10' pitfall traps that have gelatinous cubes at the bottom.
** 10' pitfalls with acidic nerf ball look-alikes are right out.
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*** Keeping the 50' pitfalls but putting large trampolines at the bottom is rather borderline.
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Alabenson
*Cannot create a character who's life goal is to "eat their way through the Monster Manual"
**Even if said character does max out their ranks in Profession (cook)
*The material components for the summon monster spells do not include pokeballs.
I'm doing that!
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BootStrapTommy
***I may not name my character words in Draconic that when put together become a sexual innuendo.
****If I do, my character will just have to deal with the FURTHER confidence issues that might arise when his name is mispronounced.
*My dwarf cleric's name is not Bud the Wiser
**My halfling rogue's name is not Bud the Light
***My elf wizard's name is not Pierre the Wine Snob
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* When my wizard's clever plan to assault the bandit camp in any way involves fire, I may not be annoyed when the currently-in-a-strategic-hiding-spot PC steals my thunder by thinking of the same thing and going first.
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Sith_Happens
* When my wizard's clever plan to assault the bandit camp in any way involves fire, I may not be annoyed when the currently-in-a-strategic-hiding-spot PC steals my thunder by thinking of the same thing and going first.
**All of my clever plans as a wizard now involve chainlightning
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toapat
**All of my clever plans as a wizard now involve chainlightning
***When my plans involve chain lightning, I may not hit the Full Plate wearing Paladin with it, explaining that his armor acts like a Faraday Cage, leaving him unharmed but the outside of his armor charged so he can shock the next person he touches.
****If this happens in the final moments of the battle and he kills me with his congratulatory high five, I am not to complain because my plan worked perfectly.
*You know what DM? I think I'll take your advice and leave the physics out of D&D.